Sonic Hedgehog Is Neuroprotective in the Cavernous Nerve with Crush Injury

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1240-1250

  Angeloni, Nicholas ^a   Bond, Christopher W ^a   Harrington, Daniel ^b   Stupp, Samuel ^a   Podlasek, Carol A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cavernous Nerve; Neuroprotective; Regeneration; Sonic Hedgehog; Transport

Indexed keywords

DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAVERNOUS NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH TRAUMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PENIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TREATMENT DURATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84876969297     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02930.x     Document Type: Article

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